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by tchaffee 6y ago
Except for Italy, Peru, Mexico, Japan, France, Thailand, and many other countries where you can find top quality food in thousands of small towns and out of the way places. So probably not a great rule to go by.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
France, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Basque, and Japan are all examples of places with mostly one ethnic group and great food scenes.
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You repeated what I already read in the article and didn't answer any of my questions. Harvard won a similar lawsuit and the government has ruled before that race can be considered to eliminate discrimination. So both the issue and the
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Asian Americans make up 5.6% percent of the total American population and Yale has ~19% Asian students. How can you claim Yale is being racist? Should the number of Asian students at Yale be higher? And why should it be higher? Which number
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by tchaffee 6y ago
We use HelloSign a lot, and it is unreliable. Long waits for pages to load, and sometimes it cannot process a PDF that displays just fine in a variety of viewers. It just hangs with a message to the console every so often saying "Proce
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Except for the fact that thirty-seven percent of respondents who said they'd left the industry listed "Noninclusive company culture" as their reason for leaving. A huge and embarrassing number for our industry that has nothin
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> Why can't we acknowledge that YC has had a massive positive impact on the world, while still acknowledging that it's a bit of an echo chamber The question contains the answer. Because "it's a bit of an echo chamber&
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by tchaffee 6y ago
These days I see far too many articles like this with everyone involved patting themselves on the back about how amazing they were (and are). If you take a closer look at what HN itself is: an ivory tower where uncomfortable truths are not
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by tchaffee 6y ago
It's not intrinsically better. It's just a different type of test. And which type of test you want to use and when is going to be based on your goals as an organization. 5000 unit tests times 3 seconds is 4 hours, isn't it? C
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> "Unit" is not a particularly well defined thing. Fair point. I think in this case I would stop focusing on definitions and focus on goals. Saying that one goal with our unit tests is for them to be lightening fast, so disk
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by tchaffee 6y ago
You are making things way more complicated than they need to be. If your test needs to hit the database just call it a functional or integration or end-to-end test. What's the problem with that? What's the need to call it a unit t
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by tchaffee 6y ago
By definition it's not a unit test if it uses a database. Unit test means to test an individual method or function, and specifically without testing anything else . > I wish there was some authority It's an interesting idea si
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At least part of China's emissions is thanks to US consumers. Just because we moved the factories there doesn't mean that goes away.
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> this is why the field of medicine gave up on using the word. From this year: "The Journal of Addiction Medicine (JAM), the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, seeks Editorial Fellows. Appl
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> I used the term “street heroin” instead of heroin because of all the complications that come along with it being illegal. This is a thread about black markets after all. Well yes, and a thread about why recreational drugs should be leg
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No, I don't think you've nailed causation of social acceptance. In Switzerland after they legalized heroin and decided it was not a legal problem but a medical problem, heroin use plummeted among young people. It became socially u
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That's called confirmation bias. The people who are living fulfilling and successful lives using meth, cocaine, wine, tea, or marijuana do not advertise it and therefor you have zero information about how many of them there are. Well p
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by tchaffee 6y ago
You have the causation reversed. Marijuana, abortion, and gay marriage were all legalized because they became socially acceptable while illegal and the laws no longer reflected the values of society.
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Street heroin isn't comparable because that's a complication of it being illegal. You would have to compare sugar to legalized heroin and safe injection sites like they have in Switzerland. In which case you are wrong. Heroin is a
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by tchaffee 6y ago
The vast majority of countries where healthcare is both far cheaper and more effective than in the US have government provided healthcare. Most of those countries also have affordable or free higher education. So the smoking gun would seem
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by tchaffee 6y ago
It is not significantly safer. If we are comparing like to like, then we are not talking about a one time exposure, we are talking about addiction and regular exposure. Addiction to sugar will almost always result in a high BMI. "Havin
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Good choice. Benzodiazepines screw with brain chemistry like no other drug I've seen people use medically or recreationally. As one friend put it about his Xanax: "I'm not sure where the anxiety goes when I take Xanax, but I
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Thank you for giving a counter example of how useful some of these drugs can be. > I would argue the bad cases you’ve seen are from people with no self control. Please reconsider this position. It is outdated and goes against all recent
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> you can't use it to say "addiction is what destroys lives, not drugs". Sure you can. It's perfectly reasonable to say sports injuries are what hurts people, not sports themselves. Even though by definition an injury
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> many people (myself included) are apprehensive Well yes, a lot of the discussion is around fear of what might happen. Why isn't anyone afraid of what already is happening? Illegal recreational drugs are literally a greater than $
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> You still go to prison in Switzerland for selling heroine on the street. And yet it was widely available on the streets back when it was illegal, and now it's hard to find on the streets and it's still illegal. So what change
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> It might not sound like it, but this is nothing but a tautology. Quite the opposite. Focusing on the substance instead of the medical condition is part of the war on drugs and essential for the propaganda to work.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> Your comment implies that most people drink alcohol because of addiction, which isn't the case. No it doesn't. You might have wrongly inferred that though. > Most people drink it for novelty or entertainment. And? So what?
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> Methamphetamine and strong opioids like carbofentanyl shouldn't be legal IMO I'm not sure how your personal opinion adds anything to the conversation? Please at least explain your reasoning to move the conversation along. Add
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Well yes there are. We have seen that with both alcohol and sugar. And with alcohol we have seen how horribly wrong it goes when you try to treat a medical problem - addiction - by using the legal system. It doesn't work.

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